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    Keeping Sweets

    By Cate Ashwood

    3.5/5

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    Newport Boys: Book One

    Days away from high school graduation, with hardly a penny to his name, Evan Lowry needs to earn money for college. When he comes across an ad for modeling, he thinks his luck has changed—until he learns he’s interviewing for an adult film and will be expected to have sex. On camera. With other men.

    For gay porn star Brandon Court, the shine has worn off of regular shoots. He and his producer, Les, decide to try something new: a reality-show porno set at a beach house. When he meets wide-eyed and naïve Evan for the first time, Brandon isn’t sure if he wants the kid to get lost or get naked. Naked wins.

    On set, Brandon takes Evan under his wing, and over the next month, they are thrown together in every intimate way conceivable—except emotionally. Both Brandon and Evan are terrified of trying for anything deeper, and insecurities and doubts wear on their hopes, but the chemistry between them won’t let them slow things down.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateMar 11, 2013
    ISBN9781623804077
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    • 4/5
      This was a really sweet, debut novel by Cate Ashwood. It has a lot of the tropes I really like- the jaded older man, the young naive guy on his own for the first time, (who also happens to have come from a tough life), porn stars, growing up. It was all put together really well.

      Evan's alcoholic mom died a few years ago, and his (also alcoholic) stepdad let him stay with him until he graduated, then out the door he had to go. He has no clue how is going to live, until he finds an ad for adult modelling, which he later finds out is porn. He's not sure if he'll be able to go through with it, but what can it hurt to feel out the situation?

      Brandon (Noah) has been doing porn for 10 years now, he's seen and done it all. He's seriously jaded, until he meets Evan, and all he wants is to take care of him, and just to HAVE him for his own.

      I thought these two men falling for each other was beautiful. The sex was VERY hot but still sensual and sweet. I did think the porn thing was a bit too- wholesome maybe? I don't know what word I'm looking for, but not seedy at all. There were times when scenes were occurring, when the camera crew was hardly mentioned at all, and I wondered where they went. And I wish we had gotten to know the other guys a bit better, the only one who really got any page time was Colton. The rest were pretty much faceless and interchangeable.

      My only other real complaint about this story was I wanted more detail on Evan's life growing up, especially when talking to Brandon. I just thought his life story needed to come out, and maybe Brand would have understood Evan a bit better, and we wouldn't have had our "big sacrifice" at the end.

      But all in all, a VERY solid debut (that didn't read like a first novel at all), and I will be looking for more from this author. (maybe a story about Colt??)
    • 3/5
      Cliched and predictable, but I still enjoyed it.
    • 2/5
      This read very much like a bad m/f romance: young virgin meets experienced older man (10 years age difference) and it has love at first sight (the much loathed "insta-love"...). Irrational protection insticts by the man and natural talent for all sexual acts (including deep throating) by the boy give it a lot of WTF-moments.
      I liked the beginning, but as soon as the "porn-plot" started it went downhill.
      And what I disliked: the whole "misunderstanding" in the end to create tension before HEA. This "I am not good enough for you" trope is so old and should be retired years ago. It is simply stupid, and doesn't happen in real life imho. Also I felt that the "boy" (bearly eighteen, totally unexperienced and "innocent" so much that he didn't even know if he was into girls or boys) was just too much bambi, and calling him a man several times by the author didn't make this szenario more comfortable. In my experience most 18 year olds are no grown-ups. I said that in another review before, and I can only confirm it here: a vulnerable High-School-graduate who doesn't have friends or family and no normal upbringing, no confidence and no experience with life whatsoever is NOT mature in a way of an adult. If anything a rough childhood and youth will make him more vulnerable. Also I found this whole "I don't want to spoil my virgin love interest with my porn-actor hands" reasoning pretty stupid, especially after de-flowering him for an audience and film crew.